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October saw The Zoots debut public show in Yorkshire at the YMCA Theatre with the Sounds of the 60s show. The Zoots had played at a wedding reception at the Settringham Estate the night before so we stayed over night and travelled the 30 minute journey to Scarborough at 10am. We were really looking forward to performing at the YMCA Theatre in Scarborough very close to where The Beatles had played on the 11th December 1963 and some 54 years later THE ZOOTS were playing there too!Continue reading

This was a huge gig booked for The Zoots, not only was I was returning to my home town but we were performing for a very important Lady called Khunying Sasima Srivikorn!

Lady Sasima is an amazing woman from Thailand who has been a very successful business woman since the 1960s. She is most well known in the UK for being the Co Chairwoman of Reading Football Club.
When Lady Sasima made her speech we couldn’t believe how good she looked! She was elegant, stylish and very well spoken. We all thought she looked like she was in her 30’s, it really was astonishing.

I first met Anna-Louise, Stuart, Fraser and Elizabeth Bates with some of their extended family in 2015 on their holiday whilst The Zoots were performing our show on a cruise ship. Her son Fraser was the first ever volunteer we had perform on stage with the band for our theatre shows. Fraser was such a natural and we were so impressed with his performance on stage! We stayed in touch with Stuart and Anna and were delighted when we heard that Fraser started guitar lessons as he enjoyed playing with the band so much.

It was in December 2015 that we heard the tragic news that Stuart and Fraser had been hit by a car and killed. It was the most devastating news a wife and a mother could ever have. Fraser was however able to save 8 lives by donating his organs.Continue reading

We were delighted to performing at Lakeside Holiday Village on Hayling Island, after a long week travelling and nearly 24 hours in the van, we were pleased not be going to far from home (Only two hours away!). It was our second show at Lakeside since performing back in 2016.It was going to be a special show as tonight my Auntie Doreen and Auntie June were going to be in the audience. They missed our show at Norden Farm so they booked a holiday break at Warners Lakeside just to see us play. We had better be good!

Stamford Corn Exchange will always be a very special place to us as it’s one of the first UK theatres we performed back in 2014. Stamford Corn Exchange first contacted us to perform a Christmas show and we have played their every year since including two Halloween shows. This time however would be our first time performing our Sounds of the 60s show in Stamford and we were really looking forward to it.Continue reading

After a rehearsal early last September, I was chatting with Tommy’s lovely Aunt (Deb) who had just come back from a weekend at Twinwood Festival. Deb told me to contact the organisers at Twinwood as it would be an ideal place for The Zoots to play.
After a couple of phone calls; we had the organisers of Twinwood interested and they sent one of the team to see us perform at Goodwood Revival the following week. We put on a fab show at Goodwood and the next day we had an offer from Twinwood to headline the last day of the festival in 2017. Continue reading

Friday 25th August is a special day for The Zoots as it’s our drummer Simon Small’s birthday! Simon was happy to perform on his birthday but luckily it was going to be an amazing show. Our debut show at The Palace Theatre Paignton in Devon! Continue reading

We first met Adam and Samantha’s on a cruise ship way back in 2015! After an amazing Zoots show, we spoke with the newly engaged couple and were delighted that they would like The Zoots to perform for them on their big day in Lancashire at Beeston Manor. Two years later after some very careful planning we took the trip up the M5 and M6 we arrived in Lancashire for the big day!Continue reading

We met Rob and Steph three years ago at Simon and Libby’s wedding wedding reception at Bowood House. After such an amazing wedding at the Wiltshire wedding venue, Rob and Steph wanted us to recreate the same party atmosphere and get all the guests involved.

Rob and Steph got married a couple of weeks before in Lake Como, Italy. Wow! The photos from the wedding were amazing! Not everyone could make the wedding in Lake Como so Celtic Manor golf club was the venue chosen for the UK wedding party. Continue reading